Texas now leads the nation in the number of Fortune 500 companies that are headquartered in the state.
As everyone knows, the labor market has been quite strong, with expectations for the unemployment rate to fall further next week.
For investors wondering where to store cash, comparing the maturity profiles on Treasuries with their “risk of loss” history can help reveal where value might lie within shorter maturities.
With “Team Persistent” having clearly prevailed over “Team Transitory” in the debate over the nature of today’s surging inflation, the question now is whether prices can be tamed without also causing a recession.
The disinflationary impact of Fed policy on equities is coming.
Low inventories drove natural gas prices to their highest level since 2008, while above normal temperatures are putting additional stress on natural gas supply.
As market volatility rages, Raymond James CIO Larry Adam believes the Fed will likely engineer a soft landing and avoid a severe recession.
The Franklin Templeton Institute hosted the Global Investor Forum last week in New York featuring internal and external speakers with expertise across economics, history, foreign policy, sustainability and investment management.
There is increasing awareness among investors of the important role that responsible investing plays in a well-diversified portfolio.
Investors’ expectations that interest rates will not rise much may be very misguided.
The outlook for credit amid rising inflation, monetary tightening, and war in Europe.
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, can help protect against inflation over the long run, but in the short term their performance may be dictated more by price declines in the secondary market.
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What do Netflix, Peloton Interactive, Coinbase, and Palantir Technologies have in common?
U.S. equities are trading lower in afternoon action with the markets unable to extend yesterday's solid gains.
The future is always unknown.
Value investors love recessions because they intelligently recognize that recessions bring opportunity.
For several years, the largest US technology and new media companies were widely seen a cluster of similar stocks.
All year inflation has been the narrative driving markets.
With economies scrambling for alternatives to Russian fossil fuels, Dina Ting, our Head of Global Index Portfolio Management, offers perspective on single-country portfolio exposure to other world oil producers.
Scott Minerd, Guggenheim Partners Global CIO, joins CNBC to share his views on the consequences of aggressive Federal Reserve tightening.
Stocks start the week higher following recent bearishness.
Investing during a recession can be a very difficult, and often dangerous, prospect.
Policymakers and forecasters were slow to change their mindset about inflation.
At least a couple of major retailer stocks got clobbered last week as investors sold on reports that they missed earnings estimates.
While conventional wisdom says that rising interest rates are bad for stocks, it’s more accurate to say that rising rates tend to be bad for certain types of stocks.
The U.S. was experiencing some of the highest inflation in its history.
As with bodily atherosclerosis, curing our economic condition may require lifestyle modifications. But in one sense, it will be even worse: We’re all going to get the cure whether we want it or not. We’ll get its side effects, too… and you can bet there will be many.
This week has seen a series of rapid contractions across the digital asset ecosystem. In a space that is well-known for volatility, even this week has stood out to observers.
The recent surge in interest rates and inflation has put the record strength in housing under a microscope.
It's extremely difficult to watch the news and not feel overwhelmed by the avalanche of negative headlines.
Soaring commodity prices have helped drive inflation to 8.5%, by far the highest level in the last few decades.
The Northern Trust Economics team shares its outlook for key markets in the month ahead.
Since the global financial crisis, assets in private credit have grown exponentially as investors search for yield while protecting against inflation and rising interest rates.
Research Affiliates discusses the intriguing long-term outlook for value stocks, and provides insights on the models that underpin its asset class forecasts.
Dover Corporation is a diversified holding company serving more than 200 product categories in the industrial, energy and manufacturing industries.
“What does a yellow light mean? Slow down!
John Paul Lech, Lead Manager of the Matthews Emerging Markets Equity Fund, explains the potential value that unique real estate equities can offer emerging market-growth portfolios.
Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace.
U.S. equities plunged, finishing near the lows of the day, following disappointing quarterly results from Target Corporation and Lowe's Companies, with both retailers warning of rising cost pressures.
The risks of tightening into a downturn.
It would be an understatement to say that the stock market has been volatile recently.
Looking for a tactical way to de-risk your portfolio? You might consider rotating a portion of your equity allocation into high-yield bonds.
Credit market volatility this year has been extreme.
We put together a histogram of the last 96 years of annual returns, bunching them into percentile ranges. You might expect something that looks like a bell curve, but you would be very wrong! As advisors, we constantly remind clients about the necessity to think long term. The problem is that it’s hard at any age to think in 30-year terms, especially in the middle of a year like 2022.
The White House said last week it is prepared to begin large sales of crude oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
If we follow the threads underlying inflation over the past year to their earliest beginnings, they run straight through the fog of pandemic, quickly pass by the financial crisis in 2008, and wind their way past the Great Inflation of the 1970s...
Wylie Tollette, Head of Client Investment Solutions with Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, joins the head of the Franklin Templeton Institute, Stephen Dover, for a conversation on the recent equity market selloff.
Investors are in a pickle.
Natural gas prices traded higher to start the week after forecasts show hotter than average temperatures in the United States.
